1752 in Poetry - Births

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• January 2 – Philip Freneau, American poet, called the "poet of the American Revolution" (died 1832)
• May 14 – Timothy Dwight IV (died 1817), American academic and educator, eighth president of Yale College, Congregationalist minister, theologian, author and poet
• July 10 – St. George Tucker, (died 1827), American lawyer and professor of law at the College of William and Mary
• November 20 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet and forger (died 1770)

• Also:
  • Ann Eliza Bleecker, (died 1783), American poet and correspondent
  • Edmund Gardner
  • Joseph Ritson (died 1803), English writer